Fourteen seats on the Chicago City Council remain up for grabs and will be decided by a runoff on April 4 along with the race for mayor, according to final, unofficial results released Tuesday by the Chicago Board of Elections.
The board will meet Wednesday to approve the results.Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas earned 32.9% of the vote, and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson 21.6%, according to final, unofficial results.
Six members of the City Council will have to defend their seats during those contests, including 29th Ward Ald. Chris Taliaferro, who fell 50 votes short of winning a majority of votes in his West Side ward. Taliaferro, the chair of the City Council’s public safety committee, will face CB Johnson, who has run a nonprofit organization fighting drug addiction for nearly three decades.
In addition, Ald. Gilbert Villegas will face Chicago teacher Lori Torres-Whitt in the runoff to represent the 36th Ward, which was significantly redrawn to stretch from Schorsch Village on the Far Northwest Side along a narrow corridor that follows Grand Avenue to West Town. The Democratic Socialist caucus could expand its ranks if organizer Angela Clay defeats Kim Walz in the 46th Ward runoff. The winner of that contest will replace retiring Ald. James Cappleman in May.
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